Author: Douglas Kronaizl

  • Dallas mayor is third big-city mayor to switch parties since 2016

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    Welcome to the Wednesday, September 27, Brew.  Here’s what’s in store for you as you start your day: Dallas becomes largest city with a Republican mayor after party switch On Sept. 22, Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson, a former Democratic state legislator, announced he was switching his party affiliation to become a Republican.  The switch makes…

  • How many votes does it take to pass a ballot measure? Californians will weigh in next year

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    Welcome to the Wednesday, September 20, Brew.  Here’s what’s in store for you as you start your day: California legislators send two constitutional amendments on vote thresholds to November 2024 ballot On Sept. 14, the California Legislature passed two constitutional amendments that would change vote thresholds required to pass certain ballot measures. Both amendments will…

  • California veto referendums will look different next year

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    Welcome to the Wednesday, September 13, Brew.  Here’s what’s in store for you as you start your day: California veto referendums will look different next year A final look at tomorrow’s mayoral runoff in Nashville Decline in Vanguard, BlackRock support for ESG shareholder proposals California’s veto referendums will look different next year On Sept. 8,…

  • Celeste Maloy wins Republican primary for Utah’s 2nd Congressional District

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    Celeste Maloy defeated Becky Edwards and Bruce Hough in the Republican primary for Utah’s 2nd Congressional District held on Sept. 5. Maloy received 38.3% of the vote, while Edwards and Hough received 35.1% and 26.6%, respectively. As of Sept. 6, approximately 82% of the votes were counted. Maloy advanced to the general election on Nov.…

  • District attorney recall efforts have 10% success rate since 2010

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    Welcome to the Wednesday, September 6, Brew.  Here’s what’s in store for you as you start your day: Alameda County district attorney recall is 30th such effort nationwide since 2010 Biden issued two executive orders in August, bringing his total to 121 Nebraska campaign to repeal tax credits for private education scholarship accounts files signatures…

  • Six state financial offices at stake in November’s elections

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    Welcome to the Wednesday, August 30, Brew.  Here’s what’s in store for you as you start your day: November elections to determine six state financial officers Voters in three Michigan cities to decide ranked-choice voting ballot measures in November 71 candidates filed for congressional and statewide offices last week November elections to determine six state…

  • Tribal ballot measure to legalize marijuana in North Carolina

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    Welcome to the Wednesday, August 23, Brew.  Here’s what’s in store for you as you start your day: Eastern Band of Cherokee Indian voters to decide recreational marijuana measure on September 7 Eight candidates to appear at tonight’s Republican presidential debate 54 candidates filed for congressional and statewide offices last week Eastern Band of Cherokee…

  • An early look at Louisiana’s upcoming gubernatorial primary

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    Welcome to the Friday, August 18, Brew.  Here’s what’s in store for you as you start your day: 16 candidates to face off in Louisiana’s Oct. 14 gubernatorial primary Three Richland, Wash., school board members removed from office after successful recall #FridayTrivia: Republicans make up what percentage of all state legislators? 16 candidates to face…

  • 1.5% of all absentee/mail-in ballots were rejected in 2022

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    Voters cast 36,683,450 absentee/mail-in ballots in the 2022 general election. Of that total 549,824—or 1.5%—were rejected, roughly equal to the 1.4% rejection rate in 2018, the most recent midterm election, and up from the 1.0% and 0.8% rejection rates in the 2016 and 2020 presidential election cycles, respectively. Between the midterm election cycles in 2018…

  • Results from Mississippi’s battleground House primaries

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    Mississippi voters decided 44 contested state House primaries on Aug. 8, a decade-low for the chamber, down one from the previous low in 2019. Ballotpedia identified six battleground primaries in the chamber: one between Democrats and five between Republicans. In Mississippi, a candidate wins a primary outright if they receive a majority vote. Otherwise, the…